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teachers in time, and findiDg a field open for the exercise of their vocation, go 

 ont into the world as men who are possessed of a privilege which belongs to 

 rank and fortune. And hence, no system of popular education has, as yet, made 

 its appearance here. 



In Germany on the contrary, where the gymnasium is open to the poor as free- 

 ly as to the rich, where all who honorably pass through the gymnasium cannot 

 fail of finding access to the university, and where every educated man becoming 

 a member of the great educational system, incurs the obligation as well as meets 

 the demand to contribute by his labours as a teacher to its sustentation — there 

 we find a most perfect system of popular education. As everything in educa- 

 tion depends upon a proper supply of teachers, so there the primary or common 

 Bchool is provided for in a distinct institution — the Seminary or Normal School; 

 while this again is supplied with instructors from the university and gymna- 

 sium. " 



It "would be difficult, we think, to point out a more egregious 

 misstatement of all that pertains, for good or evil, to the English Uni- 

 versities than is here set forth. If there is one thing for which the 

 English Universities are more remarkable than all else, it is in the 

 strong inducements they hold out to the most distinguished and 

 worthy of their graduates to become teachers ; and what is the dif- 

 ference between the "elect and exclusive class" of fellows, and the 

 graduates at large, but solely this, that the former have proved their 

 preeminence in the examinations by which the Scholarship of all has 

 been tested, and have achieved a rank dependent, not on fortune, but 

 on learning. "With more justice, because with better knowledge, an- 

 other American writer, Charles Astor Bristed, thus writes, in refer- 

 ence to Cambridge, where he studied, and graduated. 



" The private tutor at an English University corresponds in many 

 respects with the Professor at a German. The German Professor is 

 not necessarily attached to any specific chair ; he receives no fixed 

 stipend, and has not public lecture rooms ; he teaches at his own 

 house, and the number of his pupils depends on his reputation. The 

 Cambridge private tutor is also a graduate who takes pupils at his 

 rooms in numbers proportionate to his reputation and ability. And 

 although, while the German professor is regularily licensed as such 

 by his University, and the existence of the private tutor as sttch is 

 not even officially recognised by his, still this difference is more ap- 

 parent than real ; for the English University has virtually licensed 

 the tutor to instruct in a particular branch by the standing she has 

 given him in the examinations." We are apt indeed to deceive our- 

 selves with names instead of things.* The German Bursch 



* The confusion in the minds of those unfamiliar with the English University 

 system, arises from the fact that the term Professor is there reserved exclusive- 

 ly for the special class of lecturers, not attached to any of the Colleges, but on. 



